The Cog Science Blog

Uncle Cranky is a good book for kids AND adults! I'm sure that wherever you live there's an Earth Day Festival near you this month. Here...

Where do you fit on the graph? Does the world seem to lack human warmth to you lately? Do you worry about the competence of people who...

You don't have to wrap virtual gifts! In my email this morning, I received an invitation to participate in a low-carbon gift exchange...

I’m launching STEM with Cog’s Episode 13 today . It’s all about how we can reduce waste and increase efficiency to combat climate change....

If you watched Part 1 of Cog’s video, Electrify Everything , then you already know that I love our solar panels (and this solar hula...

It's pretty shocking to see all the ways climate change can affect us in Cog’s Episode 11, but we can turn that climate shock into...

. . . everyone on the planet should attend a free Cl!mate FRESK workshop to understand the science behind climate change.

You could erase all of the years we’ve been burning those fossil fuels with one swipe of a fingernail file.

In the outdoors, children (people) make connections to the natural world, making them more willing to protect it.

Rewilding is anything that works to restore nature and return an ecosystem to the condition it was in before human interaction.

In Cog’s Volcano video, I talk about the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora and how it caused “the year without summer.” That cold weather...

I worry about climate change. I worry about students who hear about it from adults or media who either predict dystopian hell-scapes or ...